floccose

An obsolete adjective describing something that is covered with soft, woolly tufts or flakes.

• 🇵🇹Adjetivo raro usado em botânica e micologia para descrever algo coberto por tufos macios, felpudos ou flocos lanosos. Pode indicar superfície com pequenas mechas fofas ou penugentas.

1. Having woolly tufts C2 formal scientific

   Describing a plant surface that is covered with soft, woolly tufts of hairs.

   • The stem of this alpine plant is floccose, providing insulation against cold.
   • Botanists noted the floccose texture on the underside of the leaves.
   • The floccose coating makes the species easily identifiable in the field.
   • Young shoots appear floccose before the hairs shed as they mature.

   🇵🇹Coberto de tufos lanosos

   Sinônimos: cottonyfleecyflocculentlanatetomentosewoolly

   Antônimos: glabroussmooth

• more floccose comparative form
• most floccose superlative form